Forcing the spring : inside the fight for marriage equality / Jo Becker.
Becker, Jo, author.
2014
KF228.H645 B43 2014 (Mapit)
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Title Forcing the spring : inside the fight for marriage equality / Jo Becker.
Author Becker, Jo, author.
ISBN 9781594204449 hardcover
1594204446 hardcover
Published New York : The Penguin Press, 2014.
Language English
Description 470 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Number KF228.H645 B43 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification 346.79401/68
Summary "Forcing the Spring begins on Election Night 2008, when a controversial California ballot initiative called Proposition 8--which removed the right of gay men and women to marry--passed alongside Barack Obama's stunning victory. Forcing the Spring details how a small but determined group of political and media insiders took the fight for marriage equality all the way to the Supreme Court. Gay activists and Hollywood liberals joined together to enlist attorneys Ted Olson and David Boies--the opposing counsels on the Supreme Court's infamous Bush v. Gore ruling--to bring a controversial legal case against Proposition 8 before the highest court in the land. Forcing the Spring is the extraordinary ringside account of this unprecedented effort to shift public opinion and reengineer the political certainties of an era"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 438-450) and index.
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The "pact"
A conservative icon joins the cause
"Just wait"
A mad dash
Going public
"Prove it"
Where's David?
An unexpected development
"All rise!"
"A higher arc"
History lessons
A day of surprises
Stigma
On parents and families
Who's a bigot?
A courtroom journey to the Netherlands, via Massachusetts
A judge's memories
God, gays, and political power
The naughty boy
The science of sexuality
The plaintiffs rest
Cooper's turn
"A high ol' time of it"
Victory
A trump card, reluctantly played
"Sometimes prayers work"
When a nightingale sings
Some "grist for Justice Kennedy"
8
Obama "comes out"
Chad and the case enter a new phase
A star witness's mea culpa
Chad's big test
"Don't they have a responsibility to act?"
Selma to Stonewall
Framing the arguments
Kennedy v. Kennedy
"Skim milk marriages"
"Dignity"
June is for weddings.

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